January 31st.
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🔗 Chris Hedges is one of many voices I read talking about the war mongering U.S.A. … and I get it - I really do … BUT … if somebody invades a country … and we 🔗 don’t do what we are doing … then what should we do?
David Fisher has the scoop this morning in the NZ Herald about Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s WhatsApp comments to his ‘Grumpy Old Men’ tennis mates about having to cancel their game on Friday because of having to deal with media ‘drongos’ requests about the flood. This will embolden more people to call for his resignation. And when Wayne loses the Herald he is in trouble…the detail about Brown begging Fish not to run it is instructive.
💬 Wayne Hickey
The article ….
🔗 Auckland floods: Mayor Wayne Brown’s 30min phone call with the Herald.
… which I haven’t read because it is paywalled, opens with these words …
January 30th.
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As I spend time cleaning up my MicroBlog, also wandering into my ReadWise and playing with a better, consistent tagging mechanism and also fixing some of the broken ‘author’, images etc that creep in from time to time - so that the quotes that get shared are more accurate.
Elsewhere I referenced Tim Minchin’s ‘3 minute’ song. Very clever. Very funny. And guess what … it is only three minutes long!
📺 Jack Irish
Guy Pearce has been playing this part for a few years now. Solid show, good cast. Definitely worth trying ot. They are all self contained - but why not go back and try out the first and let it all unfold.
📺 Mr Corman
Meh. I mean I didn’t stop watching it or anything - but I really did expect more from Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
📺 Mr Robot
I was scrolling through Reelgood spotted this and wanted to say great show. Then again I have always been a sucker for Christian Slater and of course this show introduced the world to Rami Malek. How could you go wrong?
📺 Peaky Blinders ★★★★★
The Series that is. The film at the end - to bring ‘closure’? Yeah - not so much
📺 The Book of Boba Fett
Good - but there have been some stronger shows from that franchise. Must get round to logging them.
📺 Ozark
A great show from the very first series to the end. (If that was the end?)
📺 Goliath
Finally got to watch the last series. ✅ Still good - but possibly losing the edge that the earlier shows had.
Atmospheric River swamps Auckland, its Mayor and our climate debate.
Remember, Friday-night’s deluge happened after a year in which:
The list is revealed in the link.
What do Kiwis think?
🪦 WAIT … now Tom Verlaine?… what the hell is going on … another awesome musician we lay to rest.
R.I.P. Tom.
Is The Stream As A Design Paradigm Over?
Om asking the question as he weighs in on Ben Werdmuller’s post asking whether the ‘stream’ needs to give way to a new way of organizing?
I think no - but I understand the challenge, which is why I have been going back over my old posts and trying to get rigorous with
Categories and
Search
.. so that I can find stuff (and I recognize that it is really only me that looks to navigate the 7,000 plus posts (I know - I know)).
This is also why I am looking for ways to bulk manage my posts - so i can recategorize, without going one at a time …
AND - I am not the only one, @dave also posted this today
Would someone please make a ChatGPT product that can be pointed at specific websites, and allow intelligent queries against the contents. I’d love to explore the site I’ve been writing for 28.5 years, scripting.com. Let me know. It’s worth $ to me.
💬 Dave Winer
I have not been blogging for 28.5 years and what I have got has been - well, lets call it ‘distributed’ - but slowly bringing it all together to make more sense and a flow.
By the way - the reason I think that the stream should not go is because it works. It’s how the social world works, its how places like micro blog work - and it makes sense. You go to that person’s blog and you find the very latest thoughts right there at the top of the page.
I know that it is not only one way to organize your thinking - but if we also tag, categorize, highlight posts we want to share more and and and … anything else that you may want to use - it all helps - but no single process works because you don’t know what the person visiting your blog is looking for - so you can’t organize in anticipation.
Streams controlled by algorithms or selectively highlight just part of ‘the hose’ or offer no other way to get at the thinking - yeah - not good. But as a first port of call - I cant see a way to improve - until we all have our own person AI that can make sense of our blathering - no point in me asking - hopefully someone will listen to Dave:)
Carludovica is a personal favorite.
I think we can all agree that ‘instant’ coffee falls well short of the real thing.
I wonder who at Taittinger thought this was a good idea?
Just passing through and caught up with long time friend Graham. Sadly, I don’t have a full photograph of his T-Shirt which actually read …
Wanted
Dead & Alive
Schrödinger’s cat
🎵 The only public list I have at Album Whale that I am not tracking is this one - because it is finished! One album for each decade since I ‘discovered’ music.
These are the other three.
